The task today was to get a piece of my garden in shape. This part is overgrown with weeds so the weeds need to come out and the ground turned over with a shovel and some mulch added to soften it up.
I got most of the weeds out and used the shovel to turn the dirt over once.
Raspberry patch weeding
Then I wanted to add some woodchips so I had to go get the wheelbarrow which was in the raspberry patch. As long as I was getting the wheelbarrow I pulled up enough weeds from the raspberry patch to fill it up and hauled the weeds to the chickens mulch pen.
For the chickens
I dumped the weeds in the weed bin and let the chicken’s have at it.
Hauling woodchips
I figured about three wheelbarrows of woodchips would do it so I hauled wood chips to the plot I was working on.
Mixing up the dirt
Once I had the three loads of woodchips dumped I started to turn the chips into the dirt with the shovel.
It was going to take several times of turning the dirt to get the woodchips mixed in.
Peep joins me
While I was working I noticed one of my smallest chicks had got out of it’s pen and was scratching for food in the freshly turned dirt. The new chicks are so small they can get through one inch chicken wire so they can pretty much go where they want until they get a little larger.
The peep is on the right.
I didn’t mind the peep in there, I’ll just have to make sure it finds it’s way back home later.
Yummy worm
It found this worm and was devouring it.
All mixed up
I think I turned the dirt and the mulch about three times and had it fairly well mixed although I was thinking a couple more loads of woodchips would be good but I decided what I had will do for now.
Watering
And the last thing I did just before dark was to put the water on the plot I was working on.
That took most of the day but it’s good to get it done. It seems most days I get my share of exercise which is a good thing, I think eh.
Yup, that’s a LOT of work, but the spoils will be worth it. That worm is almost as big as the chick!! Too cute!
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Yup, that’s a LOT of work, but the spoils will be worth it. That worm is almost as big as the chick!! Too cute!